Glossoleptaena pixis
No picture of Glossoleptaena pixis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glossoleptaena pixis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossoleptaenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 421.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Glossoleptaena pixis on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Glossoleptaena pixis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glossoleptaena pixis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Glossoleptaena pixis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Acastocephala macrops1 site
- Acastoides1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cardiola interrupta1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cyphoproetus depressa1 site
- Dalmanites myops1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Exallaspis coronata1 site
- Falcatoproetus falcatus1 site
- Howellella elegans1 site
- Isorthis1 site
- Jonesea grayi1 site
- Mesopholidostrophia laevigata1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Parastrophonella1 site
- Plagiorhyncha1 site
- Prantlia grindrodi1 site
- Protochonetes minimus1 site
- Scharyia siceripotrix1 site
- Skenidioides lewisii1 site
- Temnodiscus salopiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Glossoleptaena pixis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Silurian leptaenids (Brachiopoda)2
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Glossoleptaena pixis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glossoleptaena pixis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossoleptaena pixis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGlossoleptaena through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kelly 1967)